Lucy OpenDev Available until 28th of December 2020!

ok so i preordered on steam and now when i come here to get the download to appear in steam for open dev it says steam is down for maintenance?? Any help please?

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ok so i preordered on steam and now when i come here to get the download to appear in steam for open dev it says steam is down for maintenance?? Any help please?

Same here:(

Can't link my steam account with G2G, it says system is down. So I cannot redeem Lucy Dev. Any suggestions?

The Steam store says that the game supports Mac & Windows. The post didn't say this dev release was supposed to be windows only! I have a mac and I pre-ordered the game already and now I can't play the dev release. Is there a planned mac dev release for the near future?

Hi this is one of player from China, I've spent 11hrs on the Lucy Open Dev yesterday also there are some problems or things I wanted to share as below:

First of all, I marked great for the game via steam I think there are many great points from it, currently fans of strategy game from China would compare with 
Sid Meier's Civilization VI etc. but I still hope there will be more elements adding in the game by next year(I guess it's about 60% contents for Lucy Open Dev).

As you can see my computer's hardware above, as long as I played with highest graph in 2K during the 11hrs from yesterday, there were FPS drop many times in the late game and I'll have to restart the game much more frequently after that, so it's kind of bad game played experience.

As soon as I completed the 150 turns, when I tried to complete the QA forms, the pages disconnected and I went back to the main menu after that, so I decided to leave a message here, btw, I really enjoy this game and I truly expect the official launch for it :)   

(for the people that could not steam link their account, steam is back you should be able to do it now).

I linked my account but I don't see it on the rewards page. Is it region locked or something?

Hi Lexci. It appears that you do not have pre-ordered humankind on Steam. The other solution without pre-ordering is to get a twitch drop, redeem it on twitch and then refresh your twitch link.

After linking my steam account there is no humankind

good, I bought the deluxe offer but I can't install the beta, I already linked steam - and this page, but still nothing, please help.

You should be able to redeem the opendev here: https://www.games2gether.com/profile/me/rewards as you have the correct badge (force refresh with ctrl + F5 maybe).

This was purchased as a gift for me. So excited about this game. So very disappointed the Lucy Open isn't for mac.

My Suggestions for Lucy Opendev

Hello, Dear Developers! I am a fan of HUMANKIND from China, sorry for trying hard to make myself understood. I speak for our forum to feedback our suggestions for the Lucy Opendev, hoping to help with the game development! You are really doing a good job!

Civilization

● Babylon's EU replaces spearmen, so it doesn't have any anti-cavalry units in Ancient Era.In Early Modern Era, Edo Japan has the same problem, with EU Samurai replacing Halberdier.

● In Ancient Era, Zhou's EQ produces too much research points, even more than the reserach quarter coming out in Classical Era. That's very imbalance.

● In Early Modern Era, Lucy Opendev has 19 units, but in your Troop Tree, there should be 20 units, so where is the missing one? Is it privateer?

● Assyrian LT is too weak. Should we have one more land move speed to patrol the vast realm conveniently?

● As a Militarist Civilization, Hittite's LT deserves Combat Strength +2. +1 is not bad, but we have Huns'LT +3 combat strength on mounted units.

+1 combat effectiveness is too weak compared with other civilizations of the same period, and it is not easy to match later.

● We find Militarist and Expansionist' EQs are useless in Ancient Era. We spent several turns to build them that provide no return.

● Huns's EU in civilization selection and construction interface shows that its attack range is 3, but the actual attack range is 1. Mongolia's EU has a similar problem with an actual attack range of 2.

● Ming's EU needs 3 saltpeters. It's hard to find more than 2 saltpeters, so it have to rely on trade.

● Some challenges are easily to be done, but some are terrible. For example, the Expansionist star means a hard burden.

● Independent peoples only provide militia employment, resources , and nothing else. And they have only militias which could hardly survive in the AI's invasion.Please enhance their combat strength.

Balance

● When calculating industrial production, the industrial districts are possibly regarded as expolitations, resulting in double counting.

● After dozens of turns, the Merchant(or Builder) civilization will accumulate a horrible production in money(or industries), far beyond the general demand. That spoils gameplay a lot.

● The upper limit of the city districts should have a corresponding relationship with the current population, otherwise even 1 population can rely on high industry or money production to "build" a lot of districts.It is anti-common sense and destroy the balance of the gameplay.

● The research pace in Ancient Era is too fast, when the cities should spend 5-6 turns to construct 1 building. So we have more and more buildings left to be done, making us anxious.

● No generals in Lucy Opendev. Be cancelled or no more generals?

● Barracks reduce the industries production cost of units by 5%, but it takes 100 industries to build itself, which is hard to pay back.

● The FIMS provided by the religion easily exceeds the FIMS provided by populatioin and districts. So the production of the religion should be lowered and limited.

Environment

● After the lens Angle is turned up, the edge moves slowly and the feeling of stagnation is more serious.

● The Territory's boundary is not conspicuous enough, and the connecting plot is disjointed and floating empty.

● we can't see the most of the constructable infrastructures in the city UI at first glance. Only a few part of the screen is left to show them，even the list mode doesn't help us to tell the function of an infrastructure icon. There should be some tips on the icons to tell the meaning of each one, for example, the border color matching the FIMS. 

● The outpost has not construction queue.

● The current Angle of view is not easy to tell the terrain height difference, resulting in wrong operation.

● Some players have the situation of halfway back.

● Late game easy to jam.

● In the early stage of the game, the unit will automatically explore in the sea and die in the deep sea area without warning.

● The discovery of new civics depends on coincidence, there should be some tips to guide how to discover them, leaving players more choices. We prefer to approach the specific civics at the beginning.

●The cavalry needs more spaces to show its advantage, so we think the battlefield could be wider when a cavalry unit running into the battle.

The above are our major feedbacks. Thanks for reading. Merry Christmas,this is our Christmas present and we hope all you staff could keep on making HUMANKIND a representative of 4X game.

My Suggestions for Lucy Opendev

Hello, Dear Developers! I am a fan of HUMANKIND from China, sorry for trying hard to make myself understood. I speak for our forum to feedback our suggestions for the Lucy Opendev, hoping to help with the game development! You are really doing a good job!

Civilization

● Babylon's EU replaces spearmen, so it doesn't have any anti-cavalry units in Ancient Era.In Early Modern Era, Edo Japan has the same problem, with EU Samurai replacing Halberdier.

● In Ancient Era, Zhou's EQ produces too much research points, even more than the reserach quarter coming out in Classical Era. That's very imbalance.

● In Early Modern Era, Lucy Opendev has 19 units, but in your Troop Tree, there should be 20 units, so where is the missing one? Is it privateer?

● Assyrian LT is too weak. Should we have one more land move speed to patrol the vast realm conveniently?

● As a Militarist Civilization, Hittite's LT deserves Combat Strength +2. +1 is not bad, but we have Huns'LT +3 combat strength on mounted units.

+1 combat effectiveness is too weak compared with other civilizations of the same period, and it is not easy to match later.

● We find Militarist and Expansionist' EQs are useless in Ancient Era. We spent several turns to build them that provide no return.

● Huns's EU in civilization selection and construction interface shows that its attack range is 3, but the actual attack range is 1. Mongolia's EU has a similar problem with an actual attack range of 2.

● Ming's EU needs 3 saltpeters. It's hard to find more than 2 saltpeters, so it have to rely on trade.

● Some challenges are easily to be done, but some are terrible. For example, the Expansionist star means a hard burden.

● Independent peoples only provide militia employment, resources , and nothing else. And they have only militias which could hardly survive in the AI's invasion.Please enhance their combat strength.

Balance

● When calculating industrial production, the industrial districts are possibly regarded as expolitations, resulting in double counting.

● After dozens of turns, the Merchant(or Builder) civilization will accumulate a horrible production in money(or industries), far beyond the general demand. That spoils gameplay a lot.

● The upper limit of the city districts should have a corresponding relationship with the current population, otherwise even 1 population can rely on high industry or money production to "build" a lot of districts.It is anti-common sense and destroy the balance of the gameplay.

● The research pace in Ancient Era is too fast, when the cities should spend 5-6 turns to construct 1 building. So we have more and more buildings left to be done, making us anxious.

● No generals in Lucy Opendev. Be cancelled or no more generals?

● Barracks reduce the industries production cost of units by 5%, but it takes 100 industries to build itself, which is hard to pay back.

● The FIMS provided by the religion easily exceeds the FIMS provided by populatioin and districts. So the production of the religion should be lowered and limited.

Environment

● After the lens Angle is turned up, the edge moves slowly and the feeling of stagnation is more serious.

● The Territory's boundary is not conspicuous enough, and the connecting plot is disjointed and floating empty.

● we can't see the most of the constructable infrastructures in the city UI at first glance. Only a few part of the screen is left to show them，even the list mode doesn't help us to tell the function of an infrastructure icon. There should be some tips on the icons to tell the meaning of each one, for example, the border color matching the FIMS. 

● The outpost has not construction queue.

● The current Angle of view is not easy to tell the terrain height difference, resulting in wrong operation.

● Some players have the situation of halfway back.

● Late game easy to jam.

● In the early stage of the game, the unit will automatically explore in the sea and die in the deep sea area without warning.

● The discovery of new civics depends on coincidence, there should be some tips to guide how to discover them, leaving players more choices. We prefer to approach the specific civics at the beginning.

●The cavalry needs more spaces to show its advantage, so we think the battlefield could be wider when a cavalry unit running into the battle.

The above are our major feedbacks. Thanks for reading. Merry Christmas,this is our Christmas present and we hope all you staff could keep on making HUMANKIND a representative of 4X game.

Why does this have to be complicated? I've paid for my pre-order, why not just have that be sufficient for the opendev? I can't link my steam account because it keeps popping up that I've tried that too many times lately, even if I wait several hours between attempts.

I wish the OpenDev Lucy was longer. Had little time during Christmas to play and now when I have the time, time period has ended :(

Goodbye Lucy...

Thanks again for the amazing opportunity! I had great fun, and can't wait until April!

Apparently, my Lucy Open Dev has been revoked. I have a message in my Steam inbox to this effect. When I go to play it now, I am presented with a "Purchase" option where "Play" should be. The Purchase option takes me to the Store page.

I have the game in my steam library, Im using a windows computer but the opendev does not appear on the rewards page for me